It was an extraordinary ‘stop-go’ type of start to Leg 3 of The Ocean Race in Table Bay as the five-boat IMOCA fleet set out on their 12,750 nautical mile adventure towards Itajaí in Brazil. The race started with two and a half laps of an inshore course to give the crowds lining the Cape […]
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11th Hour Racing Team prepares for longest leg in The Ocean Race history
11th Hour Racing Team will set off tomorrow, Sunday, February 26, 2023, on the longest ever leg in the history of The Ocean Race – 12,750-nautical miles (14,672-miles/23,613-kilometers) and around 35 days of racing through the Southern Ocean. The US-flagged team will cross the startline in Cape Town at 1415 local time (1215 UTC) to […]
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The Ocean Race: Team Holcim – PRB wins in Cape Town
Team Holcim – PRB (SUI) led the Cape Town In-Port Race presented by V&A Waterfront from start to finish in Cape Town. With the South African sun blazing down on the race course and the southerly breeze blowing 15-18 knots, conditions could not have been better for some fast and tactical competition. A three-lap configuration […]
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The Ocean Race: How to Follow the Cape Town In-Port Race
The Cape Town In-Port Race presented by V&A Waterfront is the second event in the In-Port Race series for The Ocean Race 2022-23. It follows the opener in January in Alicante, Spain where Team Malizia won the race, with 11th Hour Racing Team and Biotherm taking the other podium positions. The leaderboard is here. In addition to being […]
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American around-the-world sailboat can replace damaged foils
The American boat in The Ocean Race received permission on Friday to replace its cracked foils before the next leg of the around-the-world race — a 12,750-nautical mile run to Brazil that is the longest in the 50-year history of the event. “We are pleased with the Race Committee’s decision to allow us to replace […]
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Race Committee approves replacement of 11th Hour Racing Team’s seriously damaged foils
By T!1th Hour Racing 11th Hour Racing Team’s request to replace its foils in Cape Town due to serious damage sustained in the first two legs of the Race, has been approved by the organization’s Race Committee. The team’s spare foils will be put into the boat over the weekend, and the 60-foot race boat […]
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11th Hour Racing Team finished 3rd on Leg 2 of The Ocean Race
11th Hour Racing Team has finished Leg 2 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 in third place. The only US entry in the five-boat IMOCA fleet completed the 6,514.01 nautical mile [7,565 mile or 12,175 kilometer] course from Mindelo, Cabo Verde, to Cape Town South Africa, in 17 days, 20 hours, 35 minutes, and 40 seconds. […]
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Team Holcim – PRB wins Leg 2 of The Ocean Race with key breakaway in final hours
Skipper Kevin Escoffier and his Team Holcim – PRB have won Leg 2 of The Ocean Race from Cabo Verde to Cape Town after a tense battle through the final miles of the race. At sunrise on Sunday morning, four teams were in the fight for the leg win, with Biotherm, 11th Hour Racing Team and […]
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The Ocean Race: A dogfight to the finish in Cape Town
With just 250 nautical miles left to race (as of noon UTC on Saturday) the results of Leg 2 remain as uncertain as ever with the top four boats within just five miles on the advantage line, as they race in light, flukey, changeable conditions. And the fifth placed boat remains the fastest in the fleet having made […]
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White-knuckle racing for The Ocean Race fleet
For nearly 4700 nautical miles, the five IMOCA teams competing in leg 2 of The Ocean Race have been dueling south from Cabo Verde towards a finish line just off the V+A Waterfront of Cape Town. Overnight Wednesday night the race shifted into a speed contest to the northeast as the one by one the fleet […]
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The Ocean Race: Pointing at the finish line
Team Malizia is leading the way on Thursday as the five IMOCA teams gybed away from the ice exclusion zone along 45-degrees south latitude overnight, turning to race towards the Cape Town finishing line. Climb on board the leader – Team Malizia – as they battle with their watermaker and work to protect their lead There […]
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The Ocean Race: Roaring towards Cape Town
It’s been a productive and fast 24 hours for the IMOCA fleet in The Ocean Race as the teams are diving south towards an ice exclusion zone and into the Roaring 40s, named for the area south of 40-degrees latitude where low pressure systems circle the continent of Antarctica unimpeded by land masses. Sailors in […]
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The Ocean Race: Hurry up to slow down
Today’s report is from IMOCA It’s been a long, exhausting but also thrilling second leg of The Ocean Race and the pattern is not going to change in the final stages, with the five IMOCA crews bracing themselves for one last push to Cape Town. But the routing is far from straightforward, with the boats having […]
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The Ocean Race: 11th Hour Racing Team and Team Malizia win the weekend
The American-flagged 11th Hour Racing Team pushed into the lead on leg 2 of The Ocean Race over the weekend. Skipper Charlie Enright and his crew held their nerve over an early decision to take a westerly routing on the descent down the Atlantic and the choice paid dividends on Saturday afternoon and overnight into Sunday. […]
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The Ocean Race: Making the turn
It was near midnight UTC on Saturday night when boats in The Ocean Race fleet started to make their first significant move to the east towards Cape Town. Within an hour, all five teams had gybed to the east and pointed their bows towards Africa. It’s a very close race now with 11th Hour Racing, Team […]
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The Ocean Race: Around the outside
“Around the outside” is a trope that gets pulled out at one point or another on every edition of The Ocean Race. It refers to a tactical option on the race course where a boat, or boats, sail a longer route in more favourable conditions to make a pass on the leaderboard. Today it’s appropriate […]
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The Ocean Race: Differing views
Credit to GUYOT environnement – Team Europe who have regained the lead on the race tracker as well as their position as the most southerly boat in the fleet. In a race south, that’s a good thing…. or is it? Two of the three boats positioned about 120 miles to the west – Team Holcim-PRB and […]
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The Ocean Race: East is least
One day can make a big difference in The Ocean Race. In fact, just a few hours can turn what had been a winning hand into something doubtful. That’s been the case for GUYOT environnement – Team Europe, who gambled on an easterly line-up for the doldrums and appeared to have made a big gain in […]
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The Ocean Race: Back on track
After hitting the speed bump of the doldrums, the five IMOCA yachts competing in The Ocean Race are now eating up the miles on the race south to Cape Town. Watch the content from on board the race boatsFollow the positions on the race trackerDefying conventional wisdom that says ‘west is best’ for a doldrums crossing, […]
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WUN-ON-ONE: A conversation with Brad Read, Sail Newport and The Ocean Race Newport Stopover
The Ocean Race fleet is expected to arrive in Newport on or around May 10-12, 2023, following an approximately 17-day trek from Itajai, Brazil. Before reaching the shores of the United States, the sailors will have completed 28,650 nautical miles, which is approximately 89% of the global race, which began on January 15, 2023. The […]
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The Ocean Race: Racing into the South
As January comes to a close, so does one chapter of leg 2 of The Ocean Race. The fleet has burst into the southern hemisphere, crossing the equator overnight and escaping the calms of the doldrums. Follow the latest positions on the race tracker Follow the latest stories ‘from the boats’ GUYOT environnement – Team Europe […]
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The Ocean Race: Nervous times
It’s been a difficult 24 hours for the entire fleet as the five IMOCA teams become fully engulfed in the Intertropical Convergence Zone, better known as the doldrums. The light, fickle winds, random storm cells and clouds that bring sudden puffs of wind along with rain and thunder and lightning, mean days and nights of uncertainty. […]
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The Ocean Race, Leg 2: Slowly sliding south
By The Ocean Race It’s been a tense first night as the IMOCA fleet has sailed south, away from Mindelo and towards the uncertainty of the Doldrums. It was an exciting start, despite the light conditions, with close quarters action as the fleet leaves Cabo Verde en route to Cape Town. Watch the start from […]
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The Ocean Race: Leg two starts with difficult choices ahead
After being buffeted by strong trade winds for the duration of the short stopover, the waters off Mindelo, Cabo Verde were relatively calm on Wednesday for the start of Leg 2 of The Ocean Race. The short stopover marked the first time The Ocean Race has visited west Africa and this island chain despite it […]
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The Ocean Race – Shifting Gears: Leg 2 presents challenges to IMOCA sailors
After a week of solid trade wind action in Cabo Verde, the forecast for the start of Leg 2 is much more benign – light NE winds of 5 to 8 knots. In fact, the weakening trade winds are likely to impact the fleet all the way down to the doldrums – the area of […]